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<td class="v">4:1</td>
<td>Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.</td>
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<td class="v">4:2</td>
<td>For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.</td>
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<td class="v">4:3</td>
<td>For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.</td>
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<td class="v">4:4</td>
<td>He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.</td>
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<td class="v">4:5</td>
<td>Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">4:6</td>
<td>Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.</td>
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<td class="v">4:7</td>
<td>Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.</td>
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<td class="v">4:8</td>
<td>Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.</td>
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<td class="v">4:9</td>
<td>She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.</td>
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<td class="v">4:10</td>
<td>Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.</td>
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<td class="v">4:11</td>
<td>I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.</td>
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<td class="v">4:12</td>
<td>When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.</td>
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<td class="v">4:13</td>
<td>Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.</td>
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<td class="v">4:14</td>
<td>Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.</td>
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<td class="v">4:15</td>
<td>Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.</td>
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<td class="v">4:16</td>
<td>For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.</td>
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<td class="v">4:17</td>
<td>For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.</td>
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<td class="v">4:18</td>
<td>But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.</td>
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<td class="v">4:19</td>
<td>The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.</td>
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<td class="v">4:20</td>
<td>My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.</td>
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<td class="v">4:21</td>
<td>Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.</td>
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<td class="v">4:22</td>
<td>For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.</td>
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<td class="v">4:23</td>
<td>Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.</td>
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<td class="v">4:24</td>
<td>Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.</td>
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<td class="v">4:25</td>
<td>Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.</td>
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<td class="v">4:26</td>
<td>Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.</td>
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<td class="v">4:27</td>
<td>Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.</td>
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